100 Years: Looking Back, Looking Forward

We have demonstrated that our collective pursuit of excellence in learning, teaching and research is making a lasting difference in our world. As we mark the close of our first century, we look forward to the next 100 years of accomplishment together.

Over our first 100 years, UBC has built a strong and engaged community of alumni, students, staff, faculty, friends, donors and partners. Our Centennial is about honouring and renewing these connections.

We are reaching out to everyone who has touched or been touched by UBC —whether at our Point Grey campus in Vancouver, our Okanagan campus in Kelowna, or through our many partners in British Columbia, Canada and around the world.

Your stories shape our story. We want to collect, curate and add them to our reflections on a century of achievement of phenomenal growth and transformation.

The Centennial launched on September 30, 2015, in conjunction with the official opening of the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre, 100 years to the day since we welcomed our first class of 379 students.

Over the 2015-2016 academic year, we are celebrating with old friends and embracing new ones through a host of activities that include performances, lectures, speakers’ series and workshops focused on what we do best: research, teaching, learning and innovation.

We are further marking this occasion by collaborating on projects with students, commemorating our Aboriginal history and future promise, recognizing our government and private partnerships and completing our landmark start an evolution fundraising and alumni engagement campaign.

We have demonstrated that our collective pursuit of excellence in learning, teaching and research is making a lasting difference in our world. As we mark the close of our first century, we look forward to the next 100 years of accomplishment together.

100 Years of Discovery

Explore how UBC evolved from 1915–2015, one discovery at a time, to become one of Canada’s leading research universities.